Diabetes is associated with greater leg pain and worse patient-reported outcomes at 1 year after lumbar spine surgery

Abstract Although patients with diabetes reportedly have more back pain and worse patient-reported outcomes than those without diabetes after lumbar spine surgery, the impact of diabetes on postoperative recovery in pain or numbness in other regions is not well characterized. In this study, the auth...

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Main Authors: Kosei Nagata, Hideki Nakamoto, Masahiko Sumitani, So Kato, Yuichi Yoshida, Naohiro Kawamura, Keiichiro Tozawa, Yujiro Takeshita, Hiroyuki Nakarai, Akiro Higashikawa, Masaaki Iizuka, Takashi Ono, Masayoshi Fukushima, Katsuyuki Sasaki, Rentaro Okazaki, Yusuke Ito, Nobuhiro Hara, Toru Doi, Yuki Taniguchi, Yoshitaka Matsubayashi, Sakae Tanaka, Yasushi Oshima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87615-y